weareadventurers: Captain America v. the 60s“Between Captain America #120 and #130, Steve Roge
weareadventurers:Captain America v. the 60s“Between Captain America #120 and#130, Steve Rogers is suddenly made aware of the generation gap, thecounter-culture, and that he himself is viewed as a giant square. But wheremost people opining on Captain America go wrong is that Marvel didn’t have Caprespond to this by becoming a reactionary, lashing out at the damned hippies.Rather, Lee et al. leaned into their already-established trope as Cap as a man out of time in a different way, as Steve Rogerstakes the critique seriously.”Full article by Steven Attewell: A People’s History of the Marvel Universe, Week 5: Captain America vs. the 60s@wearepaladin~ RogueSomething I’ve always liked about Cap, and in turn the writer’s who know how to portray his character best, is that he’s always questing for the right way to do things. For me, virtue like that isn’t a statue of mortal fortitude, made of marble and enduring the test of time, only to shatter when applied with enough force, but more like a flower, bright and colorful, seeming doomed, but will bloom again given time. That’s Caps strength. He’ll always see the beauty in people, and in turn his goodness is something that can exist and grow strong in any era. -- source link
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